Taishi Ci

Repays Kong Rong's kindness to his mother: rides alone through the Yellow Scarves into Beihai, then cuts his way out again - dropping pursuers with arrow after arrow - to fetch Liu Bei from Pingyuan. Fights in the relief beside Zhang Fei, refuses all reward, and leaves to answer Liu Yao's summons to Yangzhou.

Taishi Ci; defects to Sun Ce after the famous evening-long single combat on Shenting Hill in which neither could best the other. The recruitment that ratifies Sun Ce's rise.

Given the third army with Lü Meng in the order of battle.

Handed Zhou Yu's own commander's sword as master of the Gathering of Heroes: anyone who mentions the war between Cao Cao and the South Land dies - the sanction that gags the persuader all evening.

Sent with two thousand to Huangzhou to cut Cao Cao's line to Hefei - watching for the red flag that means Sun Quan himself is up.

Sees Lu Xun's answering signal and joins him against the fugitives - the junction that closes the Hefei road.

Duels Zhang Liao a hundred even bouts before Hefei, then stakes everything on his countryman Ge Ding's assassination plot - and rides through the invitingly opened gate into the arrow storm Zhang Liao prepared. Carried back riddled with wounds, he dies at forty-one with the great cry on his lips: 'why must I die before I have attained my desire?' Sun Quan buries him on Beigu Hill and takes his son into the palace.